Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue is an IrishCanadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghues 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award. and Slammerkin won the FerroGrumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Room was adapted into a film of the same name, which Donoghue wrote the screenplay for, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is the daughter of Frances and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue. She has a firstclass honours Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin and a PhD in English from Girton College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge she lived in a womens coop, an experience which inspired her short story The Welcome. Her thesis was on friendship between men and women in 18th century fiction.
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